Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1887-04-29

LANCASTER, APRIL @. 1857.
The Eject OF II.

n yho defeat OF the Billingsley bill is the
- important result, in its political effect.
IT, legislation Of the assembly at the
lDout ssssion. The bill is generally ac-
noWledged to have been q just one, and
llnGure needed to control the monopoly
Alch the Standard Oil company has of
- oil producing and refining business. 1t
QnD % fair array of the producing interest
ooinst the carrying business, and the
eou1e Of monopoly has been successful, as
: customarily il in this state, where it has
setondily maintained the power of the Re-
o1hlican party and been maintained by it.
Ihat party has we'll deserved repute as
/ - ally Of the interests that are antagonis-
/ llD to those Of the general public, and this
co1nlt intensiHes its position and makes it
exossdinsly conspicuous.
II It win have the effect of solidifying a
yoIy large section Of the state against the
Republican party, which has until now
uustained 1t. The Republican leaders who
have fAthered this legislation, in bsdience
- their personal interests and in contem.
p1a&ion Of the substantial aid they
ID their party will receive from
~ favored monopoly, expect that the pop
ular dissatisfaction will be effervescent in
II outburst Of discomfort, and that they
can hold their vote, as they have often
done before, when the far ahead election
day shall come around. The power of
their alliance with the Standard monopoly
= relied upon to overcome the popular dis.
sanction. But that i win not do. This
nel w2SpU6Msly demanded, and the in
U(Essts protected by it are too great and
{ universal, to warrant the belief that ven
osance will not be taken for its defeat. Il
has been earnestly demanded by th'
! oil region, and its defeat will certainl!
cut that region off from its Republican
connection, and the influence of the resul
Will De felt all over the state, in which tn
popular antipathy to the Standard Oi
company is very strong. The Republican
party has never been 50 clearly allied will
this monopoly, and has never been 50 hope
lessly involved in its embrace. 1t will bt
impossible to free it from the responsibility
for the defeat of this measure, whatever
sporadic Democratic votes may have beer
secured for 1t in the legislature to deprive
Il OF the party character. There are pur
chasable Democrats as there are purchase.
bio Republicans, but taken mass against
ma. the Democratic party is infinitely
cleaner to-day and is 50 shown in the vote
ON this bill; which has been defeated in a
STRONGLY Republican assembly, and may be
Z relied upon to prove as the shirt of Nessus
to that party in the coming canvass. 1t
b needless to speak OF the economic
s injuries done to the interests of the state
By the defeat Of the bill, since there are
4 fsw who will be found to deny them. II
= the public verdict that the measure wa:
4 needed, and that cannot be Over-thrown
< IT. defeat cannot be defended before tn,
! people, and the party that has thus give1
~ opponents knife with which to slay il
has shown its folly no less than its vice.
This struggle against the Standard com
pany has been long and bitter; in its fina
: result it cannot be doubtful. The defeat
OF this measure Of protection for the people
y but temporary, and will arouse 4 spirit
which will end in the extinction of this
corporation which has been standing dis
grace to the state.